THE MYSTERY OF MATTER: SEARCH FOR THE ELEMENTS – Into The Atom (1910-1960)

Air date: Mon., July 25, 11:00 pm

This series is about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long, continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Join host Michael Emerson to see not only what scientific explorers discovered, but also how.

Into The Atom (1910-1960)
Caught up in the race to discover the atom’s internal parts, Harry Moseley uses newly discovered X-rays to put the periodic table in a whole new light. Glenn Seaborg creates a new element – plutonium – that changes the world.